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William Colgate (January 25, 1783 – March 25, 1857) was an English-American industrialist who in 1806 founded what became the Colgate-Palmolive company. Early life [ edit ]
William Colgate, an English immigrant to America and devout Baptist, established a starch, soap, and candle factory on Dutch Street in New York City under the name William Colgate & Company in 1806. In 1833, he suffered a severe heart attack, stopping his business's sales; after a convalescence he continued with his business.
Colgate is an American brand principally used for oral hygiene products such as toothpastes, toothbrushes, mouthwashes and dental floss. Manufactured by Colgate-Palmolive, Colgate's oral hygiene products were first sold by the company in 1873, sixteen years after the death of the founder, William Colgate. The company originally sold soap.
The combined company was named the "Colgate Palmolive Peet Company. [16] The combined pre-merger sales in 1927 of the three companies exceeded $100,000,000 (equivalent to $1,774,000,000 in 2023). The newly combined company had seven US manufacturing facilities as well as factories in 14 foreign countries.
CKE Restaurants – founded as Carl Karcher Enterprises; Clarks – Cyrus and James Clark; Claud Butler – Claud Butler; Clif Bar – Clifford Erickson (father of founder Gary Erickson) Cokin – Jean Coquin; Coles – George Coles; Colgate-Palmolive – William Colgate; Collins Radio Company – Arthur A. Collins; Colnago – Ernesto Colnago ...
Colgate-Palmolive Co said on Monday it has named Noel Wallace as its chief executive officer, replacing Ian Cook who has led the company since 2007. Wallace will take over on April 2 and Cook will ...
Oxygenol: Finnish toothpaste brand manufactured by Finnish Company Berner Oy; Parodontax: is a brand name of toothpaste and mouthwash currently owned by GlaxoSmithKline and was developed in 1937 in Germany. [citation needed] Peak toothpaste; a brand of toothpaste featuring baking soda produced by Colgate-Palmolive, circa 1973–1977. [35]
Tom Leighton is taking the reins at Akamai Technologies , the company he co-founded in 1998 while still a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leighton succeeds Paul Sagan, who ...